civil rights

“I have never had any greed for power. Like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who fought for guaranteeing equal rights for everyone without any desire for personal gain, I have always believed in humanity and in equal rights, opportunities,...

On a societal scale, one of the fastest ways for two deeply entrenched, opposing groups to start seeing each other as fellow humans again is to give them something bigger to fight against together. “If aliens invaded, countries who hate...

Tenuti in schiavitù fino al 1865 e soggetti alla segregazione razziale – cioè alla separazione fisica dai bianchi – nel Sud fino alla promulgazione del Civil Rights Act del 1964, gli afroamericani sono rimasti a lungo esclusi dallo status civitatis...

It's 1989, PBS is producing a civil rights documentary titled "Eyes on the Prize II: Americans at the Racial Crossroads 1965-1985." William O'Neal's interview will remain his only testimony about the Black Panthers and the civil rights movements. The first...

"Normally, when you are one step away from a dictatorship or fascism, you see the difficulty of living in a democratic society, and you realize how important it is to be able to maintain a democratic system. However, democracy is...

With the right of free speech comes the duty of taking responsibility for what is said. The fact that we are free to express our own opinions doesn’t make these automatically right and true. In fact, what is an opinion?...

The controversy exists in a strange space where incredibly divergent concepts of Columbus exist at the extremes. The two cannot come together because they employ entirely different embodiments of Columbus’ significance. So where do you stand if you condemn the...

Following Donald Trump's inauguration, women from across America will converge on DC to march in solidarity against the prejudices symbolized by the new president. We interviewed one of the youngest organizers of the Women's March on Washington, and she tells...